And you are one total butthead. I am not EVEN in a UNION. Grow up you _____

Everyone please stop blaming the Democrats, the Unions, the Presidents. Dig deeper. Don't be duped. Please everyone READ THIS: I have posted this in a few places in Wisconsin threads. These are my words, then farther below a Forbes article which follows the money in this situation.

Follow the money, multi billionaries paying funds to the Wisconsin Governor as a campaign contribution.
They and others like them are attempting to stop every regulatory agency, every policing agency - by gutting the funding for them. The Koch brothers have some of the dirtiest polluting industries and guess what no one is touching them. People like that should be made to clean up their act.
Also, rather than castrate workers rights and cause nurses and teachers to stay stuck at a low wage, the top % should give just a little fraction of what they have made. The few in the very top income bracket should be made to pay a small % to help fund the recovery of this nation. They have made their billions on the backs of Americans workers - or more likely shipped the jobs somewhere else. They do not care. - Planetbarb (me) Forbes busines article posted below.

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Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions
Feb. 18 2011 - 6:45 pm | 151,492 views |
By RICK UNGAR

As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees in Wisconsin, new information is coming to light that reveals what is truly going on here.

Mother Jones is reporting that much of the funding behind the Walker for Governor campaign came from none other than uber-conservatives, the infamous Koch Brothers.
What’s more, the plan to kill the unions is right out of the Koch Brothers play book.

Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation have long taken a very antagonistic view toward public-sector unions. Several of these groups have urged the eradication of these unions. The Kochs also invited Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union outfit, to a June 2010 confab in Aspen, Colorado;
Via Mother Jones

If you are reluctant to believe that this is a coordinated attack, consider this-
This afternoon, Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin Public Workers Union, sent a message to the Governor’s office agreeing to the cuts to pension & welfare benefits sought by Walker in his bill. The governor’s response was “nothing doing.” He wants the whole kit and kaboodle – the end of the collective bargaining rights of the public unions. As noted in my earlier post, this is, indeed, the first shot in the final battle to end unionism in America.

UPDATE: The Americans for Prosperity group, a Tea Party group that is a Koch Brothers front, has put up a website and petition called www.standwithwalker.com. The website attacks all collective bargaining – not just for public employees’ unions. Americans for Prosperity is also organizing a rally tomorrow in Wisconsin to support Gov. Walker.
Why are the Koch Brothers so interested in Wisconsin? They are a major business player in the state.

This from Think Progress:
Koch owns a coal company subsidiary with facilities in Green Bay, Manitowoc, Ashland and Sheboygan; six timber plants throughout the state; and a large network of pipelines in Wisconsin. While Koch controls much of the infrastructure in the state, they have laid off workers to boost profits. At a time when Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch awarded themselves an extra $11 billion of income from the company, Koch slashed jobs at their Green Bay plant: Officials at Georgia-Pacific said the company is laying off 158 workers at its Day Street plant because out-of-date equipment at the facility is being replaced with newer, more-efficient equipment. The company said much of the new, papermaking equipment will be automated. [...] Malach tells FOX 11 that the layoffs are not because of a drop in demand. In fact, Malach said demand is high for the bath tissue and napkins manufactured at the plant.

You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.